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Subject: Re: [geda-user] GTK3, Glade interface designer (router, auto?)
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Dave McGuire (mcguire AT neurotica DOT com)
[via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> On 10/05/2015 11:34 PM, gedau AT igor2 DOT repo DOT hu wrote:
>>>  Well, considering the fact that I use gEDA and PCB nearly every day,
>>> *I* am the user base.  And to watch the traffic around here, I'm the
>>> only guy busy actually USING this stuff!
>>
>> I am an user too in that sense. Britton too. We both say scripting is
>> good, so you are losing this by rate 2:1.
>
>   Oh hey, no, I never said scripting wasn't good.  I like scripting.  I
> just don't like people getting their panties in a bunch when it isn't
> done in their favorite language so they insist it be changed to suit them.
>
>   It also really annoys me (and this is nobody's problem but mine) when
> people complain about Scheme as being "hard".  This is electronic
> design, for chrissakes...it's orders of magnitude harder than Scheme
> could ever be.

I find the electronics easier than dealing with scheme but that could
just be lazyness. I would rather use a language more maintainable. We
are trying to keep gEDA's user base and developers base alive.
Marrying gEDA to scheme is like trying to keep our lifeboat afloat by
tying it to the titanic.

>> I am trying to point out that you are doing exactly what you were
>> talking against: write emails about your own personal preferences, or
>> even, about denying needs/preferences of other users, while not
>> improving the project in any way.
>
>   Well.  Ok.  Point taken. ;)  (and touche'! ;))
>
>             -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA



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